Here's video of Spanberger campaign manager Dana Bye kicking out the Project Veritas person today

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There's a thread about this in LBN. I thought I'd crosspost this here.

Graham Moomaw Retweeted:

The campaign of Abigail Spanberger (D) challenging Rep. Dave Brat in VA-07 today kicked out someone working with Project Veritas, the conservative operation that does undercover video.

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Here's video of Spanberger campaign manager Dana Bye kicking out the Project Veritas person today at Spanberger's office in Henrico County

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I knew that name sounded familiar. Wonder if she stole any documents from the Spanberger campaign.

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O'Keefe's mole, Marisa Jorge, 'adopted a pseudonym, “Marissa Perez,” and pretended to be a student at the University of #Michigan to gain access to @AFTunion Michigan’s offices as an intern.She allegedly used that access to steal documents and spy on employees.'

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New: Federal judge whacks right-wing provocateur James O'Keefe's Project Veritas in Michigan @AFTunion #spy case. https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/order_granting.pdf …

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1. Watch the moment Democrat Abigail Spanberger's campaign staff confront the woman:

David Fahrenthold Retweeted:

Watch the moment Democrat Abigail Spanberger's campaign staff confront a woman they say is a Project Veritas operative who infiltrated her campaign in Va.’s tight 7th District:

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2. Lawsuit against Project Veritas may shed new light on group's internal operations

Marisa Jorge

She went to Liberty University, where I gather that lying is considered a virtue. Such a surprise.

LAWSUIT AGAINST PROJECT VERITAS MAY SHED NEW LIGHT ON RIGHT-WING GROUP’S INTERNAL OPERATIONS

Rachel M. Cohen
July 23 2018, 2:03 p.m.

A MICHIGAN JUDGE issued a ruling late last week granting the American Federation of Teachers the right to discovery in an ongoing legal battle with Project Veritas, the sting group launched by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe. ... The escalating fight, which is being played out in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, began last September, when the teachers union filed a lawsuit accusing Project Veritas of infiltrating and illegally gathering proprietary information from its Michigan affiliate.
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According to the September complaint, which was filed in state court, Marisa Jorge, a political operative for Project Veritas, presented herself as a University of Michigan student named Marissa Perez who was interested in becoming a teacher. She applied for a summer internship with AFT Michigan and was hired in May 2017. For the next three months, she allegedly gathered a wide range of confidential information on the teachers union. The lawsuit claims that on multiple occasions Jorge was found alone in other employees’ offices, accessing information she, as an intern, had no right to see. In other cases, she requested to attend bargaining sessions, was given access to internal databases, and secretly recorded conversations, according to the complaint.

A Michigan judge responded to the lawsuit by issuing a restraining order against Project Veritas in September, barring the group from publishing or disclosing any materials it may have collected from the union. The next month, following a motion by Project Veritas, the case was moved from state to federal court. In December, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker lifted the restraining order. Parker said the AFT had not sufficiently demonstrated it would be harmed by what Project Veritas had collected. In her decision she wrote that “a preliminary injunction most certainly will infringe upon Defendants’ First Amendment right.”

The union went back to court in early May to try once more to prevent Project Veritas from releasing any documents or videos it had obtained from its Michigan affiliate. Parker denied the AFT’s second request, again citing First Amendment concerns. ... Project Veritas began releasing information from AFT Michigan immediately thereafter. In its first post, headlined “BREAKING: Alleged Child Molester Paid Off in Union Negotiation by Michigan American Federation of Teachers,” Project Veritas boasted of releasing documents and undercover footage “which reveals that the union protected a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct with a seven- or eight-year-old girl arose.”
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A wild story about Project Veritas infiltrating @AFTMichigan through an intern plant

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this was the picture the AFT used to ID Marisa Jorge as part of James O'Keefe's network https://theintercept.com/2017/09/29/james-okeefe-project-veritas-michigan-judge-block/ … @ryangrim @MaryamSaleh_

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